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Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the… — Richard Burton
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. — Ezra Pound
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with… — Joseph Addison
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no… — Carmen Laforet
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. — James Norman Hall
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.… — Andy Goldsworthy
My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard… — Andy Goldsworthy
The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays. — Eric G. Wilson
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of… — Edward St Aubyn
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain

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